Bernard Pagel

Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel ( born January 4, 1930 in Berlin, † July 14, 2007 in Ringmer, East Sussex ) was a British astronomer.

Biography

Pagel was born the son of the medical historian Walter Pagel and his wife Magda in Berlin in 1930. 1933 the family left Nazi Germany and moved to England on.

Pagel studied physics at Cambridge University and received his doctorate in 1955. He worked long as an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and at the same time. Professor at the University of Sussex After his retirement he went to NORDITA in Copenhagen and later to the University of Sussex.

Pagel dealt with the origin of the elements and the development of their abundances in the universe. He made fundamental contributions to element abundance in stars, nebulae and galaxies.

Pagel and his wife Annabel have three children. He died in 2007 from the effects of cancer.

Works

• Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, ISBN 0,521,550,610th

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